How busy is my GP? The Brum surgeries with most patients per doctor

How easy do you find booking an appointment at your local GP surgery? We look at the stats for NHS Birmingham and Solihull CCG area.

An average GP practice in England has nearly 10,000 patients on its books, figures published by NHS Digital show.

The latest data shows there is the full-time equivalent of about 35,000 GPs, working across 6,500 surgeries in England.

On average, each GP surgery has 9,445 patients on its practice list. But some practices have a much higher GP-to-patient ratio than others.

Here we reveal 10 of the busiest GP surgeries in Birmingham and Solihull CCG (Clinical Commissioning Group) area, according to the data.

9. Kingshurst Medical Practice, Kingshurst

There are 3,726 per GP. In total there are 6,279 patients and the full-time equivalent of 1.7 GPs. Photo: Adobe Stock

There are 3,713 patients per GP. In total there are 8,714 patients and the full-time equivalent of 2.3 GPs.